Comic Books: Cover Price

Video Transcript

"Let's talk about some real basics when you're at a garage sale, or at a swap meet, or wherever you go to find your comic books. Let's talk about the cover price. The cover price is the original cost. The cover price is how much you paid for it when you bought it, which means the face value; which means; let's say you bought a comic book like this; thirty five cents. I don't remember the exact year, but it also had a bar code. This tells you that this comic book is not from the 60's; it's not from the 50's; it's subsequent to that time, so that dates it, but it is kind of cool because it's The Bionic Woman, and having to do with what's going on now; since there's a TV show. There's probably a higher demand , so if you looked in the wizard; you would see an upward arrow; to mean this was probably something that was in demand, and went up this month when the television show debuted. Then what you want to look for is older than that, and let me see what I've got here to show you. I've got; what they call, "the silver age.? The silver age; that's what I like; that's where I start. The silver age are comic books like this. They're from the 60's; I think the late 50's too, but the 60's is predominantly the silver age; and these comic books sold for twelve cents or less. The sad truth of the matter is when I was a kid, I collected these, and I had tons of them, and then one day; I decided I needed to have some money to go buy a baseball bat; I was a tomboy; I don't know what I bought, but I could kick myself. I sold all my comic books; two cents apiece. We all have these stories, so you know what; don't go there; don't worry about it. This is a silver copy, and this would be one that's from the 60's, and this is my favorite guy; Superman, and you can see that there's old Perry White. This is what they made the television show after, this particular DC comic. DC were the people that put these out; Superman, we got the kryptonite going, we got the Daily Planet. This was one of my all time favorites. Next, I 'm going to explain to you about how we assess the quality and condition of this particular comic."